[ntp:hackers] A little cleaning and tos maxdist

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Wed Feb 2 20:11:26 PST 2005


At 10:44 PM 2/2/2005, David L. Mills wrote:
>Guys,
>
>After discovering the situation reported on the newsgroup where 
>misconfigured NTP had the Netgear disease, I put it through some wickedly 
>broken configuration tests and found and fixed a few minor things in 
>ntp-dev (not anything like the PPS oscillator).
>
>1. If a notrust error and iburst are configured, the client did not back 
>off the poll interval. It now does that under all circumstances where the 
>reply is absent or corrupt.
>
>2. An unresponsive server with iburst got hammered with eight messages 
>every poll interval until the unreach counter reaches 12, then backs off 
>sending only a single packet per burst. I changed that to send a burst 
>only the first time after initial start or loss of reach.
>
>3. By popular demand I put in "tos maxdist N", where N is the selection 
>threshold, normally 1. Set N to 16 and the clock will be set upon first 
>receiving a response from any server. Y'know, like SNTP.

Or ntpdate? Isn't this dangerous? So any falseticker can royally hose your
time?

Danny

>Dave
>
>
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